On the eve of the New Year 2022, the UK’s former Prime
Minister Tony Blair got honoured with a knighthood. War of offence itself is the
ugliest war crime. Hence, whoever plans for an offensive war and engages in such
wars is a war criminal. Any bad negotiation for peace is better than any war.
Whereas, Tony Blair is one of the co-architects of a genocidal war against Iraq
on a fabricated accusation that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. During the
long occupation, Mr. Blair and his partner President George W. Bush couldn't
find any weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. So the war was planned only to kill
Muslims and destroy a Muslim country. So, Mr. Blair is very happy that the war
has met its stipulated target. This is why while he was the Prime Minister, Mr.
Blair didn’t pay any heed to more than 2 million people’s anti-war protest rally
in Hyde Park in London. His craze for war went on. As per stipulated aim, the US
and the British Armies caused the unprecedented destruction in Iraq. Even in
World War I or II, no country was bombed as badly as done in Iraq. So, Mr. Blair
has proven to be one of the ugliest and cruellest war criminals in human
history.
The Iraq war killed and maimed almost a million. Hundreds of Iraqi cities are
bombed and thousands of Iraqi houses are razed to the ground. Currently in Iraq,
hundreds of thousands of men and women live with a lost leg, a lost arm, a lost
eye or other disabilities. The war has ended, but the people live with horrors
of disabilities and painful scars in their psyche. Mr. Blair didn’t show any
sign that he feels those pains. Bombs with depleted uranium were dropped on
Iraqi cities to cause genetic deformities and cancers. So in every sense, the
war in Iraq has been one of the most cruel and evil acts in human history.
Along with the physical and the infrastructural damage, the ethical, the
cultural, and the societal damages are also huge. The US and the British war
criminals have damaged the social fabrics of Muslim brotherhood in Iraq that
survived through centuries. Instead, they raised walls of bloody divisions on
ethnic and religious sectarianism. So, Iraq now stands divided. Because of the
social and political engineering of the occupying forces, the Iraqis are made
unfit to live peacefully and amicably among themselves. After committing all
these horrendous crimes, Mr. Blair’s dead soul didn’t show any sign of regret
for committing such crimes. Rather, like any criminal, he still feels that the
war was the right thing to do.
Honouring such a morally dead war criminal raised anger among the peace loving
people living in the UK. Within 6 days, more than a million people signed a
petition condemning such an act of glorifying a murderer. The genocidal massacre
of innocent men and women is not the only crime; honouring or glorifying such a
war criminal is also an act of crime. A man with an iota of morality can’t
appreciate a killer. But in the UK, the story is otherwise. There is no shortage
of people who appreciate the British colonial heritage of occupying the Asian,
African and American countries and the genocidal cleansing of the natives in
America, Australia and New Zealand. So these people take it as a tribal duty to
honour the war criminals of their own British tribe. Honouring Blair is indeed a
candid expression of such tribal arrogance.
A Labour MP Richard Burgon tells about the moral disease of British society. He
tweeted: “It says a lot about what is wrong with our system when, after being
one of the leading architects of the Iraq war, Tony Blair is honoured with a
knighthood while Julian Assange, who exposed war crimes in Iraq, faces
extradition to the USA and a lifetime in prison.” (The Guardian, 7/1/2022). Like
the ruling Conservatives, the current Labour leader, Keir Starmer also shows his
own moral illness. He showed his love for this killer. He said, Mr. Blair
deserved the honour. Such expression tells a lot about the high moral deficiency
in the ruling elites of the UK. This is why they find no moral hindrance to
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